What is the most common skill shared by effective nurse leaders ...

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What is the most common skill shared by effective nurse leaders in leadership theories or models?
 
  1. Critical care experience
  2. Political knowledge
  3. Communication
  4. Informal power

Question 2

In an attempt to decrease tardiness, a hospital gives employees an extra hour's pay for each wage period that the employee has not been late for work. This incentive program is an example of which theory?
 
  1. Expectancy
  2. Shaping
  3. Equity
  4. Goal-setting

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Answer to Question 1

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Rationale 1: Critical care experience is not necessary for effective leadership.
Rationale 2: A leader may or may not have political knowledge but should have knowledge of and involvement in the community.
Rationale 3: Regardless of the type of leader or the type of unit a nurse manages, communication skills are the key to effective leadership.
Rationale 4: An effective leader may have formal power only.
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Answer to Question 2

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Rationale 1: Expectancy theory emphasizes the role of rewards to the employee in order to increase a desired behavior.
Rationale 2: Shaping is a procedure that involves selectively reinforcing behaviors that are successively closer approximations to the desired behavior.
Rationale 3: Equity theory is concerned with the conditions under which employees perceive their contribution to the job and the rewards obtained as fair and equitable.
Rationale 4: Goal-setting theory suggests that it is not the reward or outcomes of task performance per se that causes a person to expend effort, but rather the goal itself.
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